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Library’s Search Box Changing

In response to faculty and student feedback, we plan to make changes to the search box on the Library’s web site simultaneous with the launch of new CBBcat. The Catalogs search tab will become the first tab listed with options to search CBBCat (default), NExpress or MaineCat. OneSearch will move to the second tab position.

On This Day in Civil War History

As part of the campus sesquicentennial commemoration of the Civil War, the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives presented a blog as a daily reminder of what occurred 150 years ago. The posts derive from among the historical resources in Special Collections: a passage from a letter to a soldier; a soldier’s diary entry; a note of condolence; a daily surgeon’s morning report; an account of activities on the home front.

Children’s Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Winter Break Library Workshops for Faculty

This workshop will present an introduction to citation (or reference) managers that can help to organize, create, and format bibliographies and in-text citations. We will introduce and compare two tools, EndNote and Zotero, and help you to choose which software might best meet your needs and those of your students. At the end of the workshop, we will provide individual assistance for downloading and installing the tool of your choice onto your laptop.

Zotero can automatically create, manage, and capture citation information and documents “right where you do your work,” in your web browser. With Zotero you can also easily create bibliographies, references, and citations. In this hour-long workshop you will learn to create citations and import citation information from web pages and from online indexes and databases, to organize your research resources, and to insert citations directly into your documents.

EndNote is citation management software that allows you to maintain a “personal library” of references and citations and to manage large libraries of documents. In this hour-long workshop you will learn to create citations and import citation information from online indexes and databases, to organize your research resources, and to insert citations directly into your documents.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, providing coverage of journal articles, book series, trade publications and conference papers in all disciplines. This session will help you make the most of the Library’s newest database and replacement for Web of Science. We will demonstrate useful search techniques and “smart tools” such as creating alerts for new issues of your most-used journals or when your articles are cited and using Scopus journal ranking to identify the best fit for your manuscript submissions.

The Hawthorne Longfellow Library will host Citation Drop-In Clinics beginning the week of May 5th at the H-L Reference Desk. Librarians will provide dedicated assistance with creating citations for print, electronic, images, blogs, and many other sources, in a variety of citation styles, including MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian. EndNote and Zotero assistance will also be available at the clinics.

“The Place Show” – The New Ramp Gallery Exhibit

Does the space where we create work indirectly or directly influence our process and outcomes?

Is your understanding of place metaphoric, for example a “place or time in your life”?

What does “place” mean to you?

For this exhibit, curator James Boeding ’14, solicited submissions from peers across campus in response to the theme of “place.” The resulting installation, juxtaposes text and image in an easy and balanced manner.

Please join us in the Ramp Gallery, a student-curated venue on the lower level
of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library,
to celebrate the artists and the results of this collaboration.

Artist’s reception for Jack Mensik (2014), “90 Miles”

The show, “90 Miles” is a photo exhibition complimented by Jack’s written observations about culture and the political climate in contemporary Cuba. Jack will lead a gallery discussion during the reception.

“90 miles across those waters lies a world that is very different from the one Cubans have known all their lives. The US is truly so close yet so far away. Cubans keep up with American pop music by tuning into American radio stations. I would sit on the Malecón at night and wonder if I could see the lights from Key West.”

The Ramp Gallery, located underground in the space between H-L and Hubbard Stacks, will be available for exhibitions of student work from all disciplines: photography, fiber arts, science poster presentations, etc. Work completed for classes or independently are both welcome.

Interested in exhibiting your work in the gallery? Email a brief proposal to The Ramp Gallery at rampgallery@bowdoin.edu.